What's in a (Street) name? Apparently a lot if it means you will be living on it. Have you ever worked with a buyer where you found what looks like the perfect home and they say "I'm sorry, I can't live on _________". In my case, it was "Hurlbut Avenue". I guess that street name would have been too much of an embarrassment for him. He wouldn't even look at the house.
I understand how many times we need to give out our street address. We tell the moving van where to deliver our possessions. We make phone calls to initiate service for our many utilities. Johnny gets registered for school, "change of address" cards and e-mails get sent to family and friends.
And it doesn't stop there. Amazon knows our address, so does UPS and FED-EX. The paper boy sometimes misses my driveway, but he definitely knows my address. So is it really important to LIKE the address where we live? Is it important enough to base a decision in buying a house?
I had one buyer who kept going back and forth (literally) from a house on Dover Lane to a house on Hogwarts Circle. For you muggles out there, if you think that Hogwarts is some kind of swine blemish then I may as well be speaking in parseltongue. To the delight of my buyers elementary school daughters, Hogwarts won out.
And don't even get me started on a listing that came up on Snark Avenue. We couldn't get there fast enough!
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